Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.